Musicians
- Phil Coulter - Songwriter who wrote The Town I Loved So Well
- Nadine Coyle - Singer from Girls Aloud
- Peter Cunnah - Lead singer with 1990s pop outfit D:ream
- Dana - Won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1970, later became a politician
- Neil Hannon - Lead singer of The Divine Comedy
- Keith Harkin - Singer and songwriter from Celtic Thunder, which Phil Coulter writes for and conducts
- Josef Locke - Tenor singer, popular in the 1940s and 1950s
- Johnny McCauley - Singer/songwriter, founder of the "Country & Irish" sound who penned "Pretty Little Girl From Omagh", "Hometown On The Foyle" and many more
- Damian McGinty - Singer in the musical group called Celtic Thunder, which Phil Coulter writes for and conducts. After winning The Glee Project, he was awarded a 7 episode guest-starring role in Glee, which was later extended.
- Cahir O'Doherty - Musician in bands Fighting with Wire, Jetplane Landing and Seafood
- Feargal Sharkey - Lead singer of The Undertones and current chairman of the Live Music Forum
- Cara Dillon - singer
- John Peppard - Grammy nominated songwriter of Grammy winning song "In Another's Eyes" for
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“How are we to know that a Dracula is a key-pounding pianist who lifts his hands up to his face, or that a bass fiddle is the doghouse, or that shmaltz musicians are four-button suit guys and long underwear boys?”
—In New York City, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“As if the musicians did not so much play the little phrase as execute the rites required by it to appear, and they proceeded to the necessary incantations to obtain and prolong for a few instants the miracle of its evocation, Swann, who could no more see the phrase than if it belonged to an ultraviolet world ... Swann felt it as a presence, as a protective goddess and a confidante to his love, who to arrive to him ... had clothed the disguise of this sonorous appearance.”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)
“We stand in the tumult of a festival.
What festival? This loud, disordered mooch?
These hospitaliers? These brute-like guests?
These musicians dubbing at a tragedy,
A-dub, a-dub, which is made up of this:
That there are no lines to speak? There is no play.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)